# BigScoots review (2026): is it worth $29.17 a month, billed yearly? > Managed WordPress hosting priced by monthly visitors Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. BigScoots sells managed hosting for WordPress, with plans sized by monthly visitors, storage and the number of WordPress sites. It also offers managed VPS, dedicated servers, shared hosting and performance services, and says its team handles site migrations at no charge. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** BigScoots - **Website:** https://www.bigscoots.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you run one small site, at $29.17 a month for 1 site. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, BigScoots is a paid product, starting at $29.17 per month, billed annually ($35 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Essential 75 | $29.17 per month, billed annually ($35 billed monthly) | 1 WordPress site, 75k monthly visitors, 10 GB storage, 150 GB bandwidth and a Cloudflare-powered CDN. | | Essential 125 | $50 per month, billed annually ($60 billed monthly) | 1 site, 125k monthly visitors, 15 GB storage, 500 GB bandwidth, with 1 Boost by BigScoots license. | | Essential 200 | $70.83 per month, billed annually ($85 billed monthly) | 2 sites, 200k monthly visitors, 30 GB storage, 750 GB bandwidth, with 1 Boost license. | | Core 500 | $166.67 per month, billed annually ($200 billed monthly) | 5 sites, 500k monthly visitors, 100 GB storage, 1.5 TB bandwidth and 2 Boost licenses. | | Core 1000 | $291.67 per month, billed annually ($350 billed monthly) | 10 sites, 1M monthly visitors, 150 GB storage, 2 TB bandwidth and 5 Boost licenses. | | Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited sites and millions of visitors, quoted through a consultation. Essential 300 ($100 a month annually) also exists. | Read from https://www.bigscoots.com/wordpress-pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with BigScoots before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Two months free on annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page shows annual plans at a lower monthly rate, for example $350 a year for Essential 75 versus $35 a month. Source: https://www.bigscoots.com/wordpress-pricing/ ## Key features - **Free migrations:** The vendor says its team performs zero-downtime site migrations at no charge on every managed WordPress plan. - **Boost by BigScoots:** A performance and edge delivery layer built on a custom Cloudflare Enterprise setup, included from the Essential 125 plan upward. - **Staging, backups and SSL:** One-click staging, automatic and manual backups with retention, and an SSL certificate for each site. - **Monitoring and security:** Sites are checked every 60 seconds, with a DDoS and web application firewall service and an uptime SLA. - **Email included:** Unlimited email accounts with 10 GB of storage appear in the plan comparison. - **Other hosting types:** Cloud VPS, dedicated servers, shared hosting and optimization, security and website maintenance services are sold separately. ## Good for - WordPress site owners who want a host to handle migration and support - Content sites with steady traffic that fits a visitor-based plan ## Worth knowing - Plans are capped by monthly visitors, so traffic growth can push a site into a pricier tier. - Essential 75 uses a CDN rather than Boost; Boost by BigScoots starts with Essential 125. - Annual billing is shown as two months free; the monthly price is higher on every plan. - Shared hosting, VPS and dedicated servers have their own pricing, not covered by these plans. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. BigScoots is managed WordPress hosting with plans sized by monthly visitors, free migrations and staging and backups included. It starts at $29.17 for one site, and growth in traffic moves you to a dearer plan. - **Value for money: C.** Essential 75 is $29.17 a month billed annually for 1 site and 75k visitors, above the $20.83 dearer-quarter line for web hosting. Two sites and 200k visitors is $70.83. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing is free: no free plan and no trial are listed. - **Features: C.** Managed WordPress with free migrations, staging, backups, SSL, monitoring and email. Boost by BigScoots starts at Essential 125, and shared, VPS and dedicated are separate products. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. A managed host handles servers, but you still migrate and connect a site. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only and WordPress only, with a Cloudflare-powered CDN and no integrations list. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from BigScoots's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - BigScoots's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 5 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 23. - It stands best on ease of use (C, above 40 of 122) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $29.17 a month, against a middle price of $9.69 for the category: 95 of the 107 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 54 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace BigScoots you would be making servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 94 of the 122 other web hosts grade higher. It costs $350.04 a year. - You could not: Servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. - You could not: Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Cloudflare, WordPress **Tags:** Managed WordPress, Page speed ## Alternatives - [Kinsta](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kinsta): Managed WordPress hosting priced by sites, visits or bandwidth. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bigscoots-vs-kinsta) - [WP Engine](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wp-engine): Managed WordPress hosting sized by sites and monthly visits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bigscoots-vs-wp-engine) - [Rocket.net](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rocket-net): Managed WordPress hosting served through Cloudflare Enterprise. 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